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London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

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  • #62
    skinny90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Confab wrote: »
    Load of bollocks. 'Oooh, I can run faster than anyone else!' Great, but how useful is that, exactly?
    It's very useful if your stinking rich because of it...


  • #63
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I saw a few pictures of Nadia Comeneci at 50 the other day. Let's say she grew into hers.

    She'd definitely still get it.


  • #64
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Problems already, drivers getting lost, and issues with the Olympic Village.

    Anyone who has stayed in a Holiday Inn, who are oddly one of the Organisers at the the Village, might share those problems.

    :D


  • #65
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    She'd definitely still get it.

    She is now a sexual gymnast!!!

    Can we 'Sticky' this thread for the duration of the Olympics?


  • #66
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    kfallon wrote: »
    She is now a sexual gymnast!!!

    Can we 'Sticky' this thread for the duration of the Olympics?


    Big strong gymnastic fanny on her


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  • #67
    Carbon Bootprint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭Carbon Bootprint


    Personally, I'll be drooling over watching Darya Klishina of Russia in the long jump.

    darya-klishina-russia-track-and-field.jpg


  • #68
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Uh Oh. The first of the Olympic athletes started to arrive yesterday but there are various cracks already starting to show in the logistics for the 2012 Games. Things like :

    * The first athletes to arrive get lost for 4 hours because the bus driver cannot use GPS (or the Olympic Village has yet to be updated on the major GPS systems) - Linky

    * 3,500 British Troops will have to be called in to provide security as Security Company G4S failed to recruit enough staff yet will pull 54 million pounds from the deal - Linky

    * The only food inside the Olympic Village will be Mc Donalds despite protests from Doctors. The worlds largest Mc Donalds has been built there. No other vendor is allowed sell chips (except one or two traditional fish and chip stalls) - Linky

    I love the Olympics and am looking forward to watching some great events in the comfort of my own pub home. Not wishing bad on the event but, it'll be interesting though to see what strange things will go wrong in an event as big as this. Anyone else think disaster is looming? I could just be a bad news junkie.


  • #69
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    The Olympics to me: more televised sporting events to ignore.


  • #70
    kfallon
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    chin_grin wrote: »
    The Olympics to me: more televised sporting events to ignore.

    What do you watch on TV instead of sport?


  • #71
    Carbon Bootprint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭Carbon Bootprint


    Well, they've mounted surface-to-air missiles on buildings surrounding the Olympic complex, so what could possibly go wrong? :eek:


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  • #72
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    For two weeks I'll be a fan of swimming, I hope Gary O'Toole is on the RTE panel, always enjoy listening to him when they are paddling in the pool for Gold! :D


  • #73
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    kfallon wrote: »
    What do you watch on TV instead of sport?

    ....that's a very good question! Usually xbox....pew pew pew pew pew! :pac:


  • #74
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    chin_grin wrote: »
    ....that's a very good question! Usually xbox....pew pew pew pew pew! :pac:

    *sniggers* Playing virtual cowboys & indians with some 12 year old Chinese kid :pac:

    Only kiddin' :P


  • #75
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Uh Oh. The first of the Olympic athletes started to arrive yesterday but there are various cracks already starting to show in the logistics for the 2012 Games. Things like :

    * The first athletes to arrive get lost for 4 hours because the bus driver cannot use GPS (or the Olympic Village has yet to be updated on the major GPS systems) - Linky

    * 3,500 British Troops will have to be called in to provide security as Security Company G4S failed to recruit enough staff yet will pull 54 million pounds from the deal - Linky

    * The only food inside the Olympic Village will be Mc Donalds despite protests from Doctors. The worlds largest Mc Donalds has been built there. No other vendor is allowed sell chips (except one or two traditional fish and chip stalls) - Linky

    I love the Olympics and am looking forward to watching some great events in the comfort of my own pub home. Not wishing bad on the event but, it'll be interesting though to see what strange things will go wrong in an event as big as this. Anyone else think disaster is looming? I could just be a bad news junkie.

    1. The problem with the first one is not the fault of the Olympics or the sports people/assistants/drivers - its the fault of the GPS service providers such as Germin not updating their data.

    2. G4S will be losing 50m from the 284m contract so that others brought in, can cope with their exposed inadequacies. LINK

    3. Further concessions have been made to other food sellers in the village. McDonalds no longer have the sole right to sell chips. LINK


  • #76
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    kfallon wrote: »
    *sniggers* Playing virtual cowboys & indians with some 12 year old Chinese kid :pac:

    Only kiddin' :P

    No, I can't play online....I suck.....seriously....really bad....terrible even....


  • #77
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Right, which Mod keeps changing my thread title.

    :mad:






























































    :p


  • #78
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    irish-stew wrote: »

    So here we go, you excited yet?

    *9 days till the Football competition

    PS. COME ON KATIE TAYLOR!!

    Honestly I get the gitters at every Olympics, I can not wait and have taken leave from work to watch the Judo.

    'come on Katie Taylor and Lisa Kearney.

    'Jeeze I won't sleep tonight now!.


  • #79
    Mint Sauce
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    Leonardo Hot Waiter wrote: »
    Honestly I get the gitters at every Olympics, I can not wait and have taken leave from work to watch the Judo.

    'come on Katie Taylor and Lisa Kearney.

    'Jeeze I won't sleep tonight now!.

    Just been looking at some of the timetable to see what events I can potentially catch.

    :D


  • #80
    rainbow kirby
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    Will be heading over on the August bank holiday weekend, I have tickets for athletics on the Monday morning. Can't wait :)


  • #81
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Enjoy rainbow :)

    I think it's better to attend the athletics at the heats as you get to see everyone race. Never say never if the favourite doesn't make it to the final.


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  • #82
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Just 20 out of 300 G4S staff turn up at Olympic venue and the games have not even started yet. LOL. :p

    Staff at G4s would probably know a lot more of what is going on behind the scenes than any one else working there and with word and rumors getting around of anything unusual or suspicious one would expect these people to be the first to want to opt out.

    This story has already surfaced so wouldn't surprise me about the high number of absenteeism in the firm.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174809/Nick-Buckles-G4S-boss-yields-angry-calls-police-Army-cover-costs.html


  • #83
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Jesus Shaves wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=576


    I love that forum :pac: I can never tell for sure if they are mentally ill or incredibly stupid.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056638920


  • #84
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Yesterdays Irish Times. :p

    http://i49.tinypic.com/2rdb4sn.jpg


  • #85
    skinny90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Anyone see the bolt documentary on bbc.what a guy!


  • #86
    inforfun
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    I cant wait.

    It is a superb opportunity to perv at scantily clad athletic young women. Diving, Tennis, Gymnastics (the legal ones of course) and a whole host of other lovely ladies


    A bit like this??


  • #87
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    inforfun wrote: »
    A bit like this??



    Are number 2 and 3 twins?:confused:


  • #88
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    inforfun wrote: »
    A bit like this??

    :eek:


  • #89
    Mint Sauce
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    Carefull with what you wear if going to any of the events guys. No flash mob marketing then like there was during the World Cup.

    Makes the whole thing with Mccey D's being the only food available (well almost) in the Olympic Village a little clearer as well.


  • #90
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    irish-stew wrote: »
    Carefull with what you wear if going to any of the events guys. No flash mob marketing then like there was during the World Cup.

    Makes the whole thing with Mccey D's being the only food available (well almost) in the Olympic Village a little clearer as well.

    The Olympics have just lot a lot of face with me having read that article. Lord Coe can protect who he likes, but if he can't deliver a completely open, equal, event, he should never have gotten involved in it.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #91
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    That's an awful shame considering the amount of money and effort that was put into this international sporting event.

    One would think that if they dropped the price a bit they might be able to get rid of a lot more of them. :p

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/700000-olympics-tickets-unsold-7953201.html


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